The callow recruits wished they were home.
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Callow
/ˈkæləʊ/
Synonyms for "callow" (155 found)
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Adjective(5 words)
Adverb(1 words)
less mature people
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Adjective(1 words)
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25 total sentences available.
He’s too callow to handle such responsibilities.
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Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.
Source: wiktionary
There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.
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